Ethical and social issues of 'teleservices' for disabled and elderly people

In recent years the implantation of ‘teleservices’ as an alternative for the social integration of people with disabilities and elderly people has been observed. Telematic services such as teleteaching, telework, teleshopping, telecare, telesurveillance, teleleisure appear to be the panacea for the complete social and labour integration in developed countries. In this paper some aspects related to ethical and social issues of teleservice proposals are studied. Other matters in question, such as technical feasibility (which is not always evident) or economic profitability (for a very high anticipated cost), are not discussed here. As a conclusion, a list of conditions for every project of implementation of teleservices for disabled and/or elderly people is proposed.